Intellectual Quotes · Page 29

The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

— William Wordsworth

“Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.

— Marshall McLuhan

The first thing I thought [when I read the script] was that Frasier was an intellectual at some points but also an…

— Kelsey Grammer

The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Your physical, mental and intellectual resources - continually growing and changing - are your personal capital.

— Brian Tracy

They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend…

— Jeremy Rifkin

Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools.

— David J. Anderson

With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to…

— Noam Chomsky

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying…

— Mark Helprin

The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more…

— George Edward Woodberry

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant…

— John Green

One can say that the disaffection is still a lingering naiveté about, not the place of poetry in the world, but -…

— Fady Joudah

There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding…

— Leslie Lamport

The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

I had just been sort of raised and formed in a general Christian context, and it seemed to my teenage self that…

— Ross Douthat

Democracy cannot survive where there is such uniformity that everyone wears exactly the same intellectual uniform or point of view. Democracy implies…

— Fulton J. Sheen

While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevating our race, we discriminate, as we hope our…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

My relationship to the desecration of the earth was very theoretical and intellectual until I got sick. I could never watch anything…

— Eve Ensler

The Trilateralist Commission is international...(and)...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control…

— Barry Goldwater

'Men with Guns' - the producer's cut did not have the artistic and intellectual merit I hoped for, although I am still…

— Kari Skogland

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth

— Paul Johnson

All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical…

— Umberto Eco

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

— Charles Caleb Colton

I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

— Edward Snowden

Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

— John Adams

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

— Thomas Huxley

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

— George Henry Lewes

Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.

— Gary Gutting

We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard.

— Jonathan Gottschall

Lotte Lenya was all emotion. She wasn't anything but emotion. She was not an intellectual.

— John Hurt

'Money' is never about money. It's an intellectual exchange for something that you believe will make you feel better.

— Debbie Millman

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng possess a level of intellectual self-confidence usually found among undergraduates. They always have.

— Nick Boles

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

— Imre Lakatos

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

— Arthur C. Clarke

I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the…

— Jorge Luis Borges